TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

ABSTRACT

中文摘要

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION-1

1.1 BACKGROUND INFORMATION-1

1.2 PURPOSE AND SIGNIFICANCE-1

1.3 ORGANIZATION OF THE WHOLE PAPER-1

CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW-3

2.1 THE STUDIES OF SYNTAX IN DIFFERENT FIELDS -3

2.1.1 Studies in China-3

2.1.2 Studies in Abroad-4

2.2 THE STUDIES OF JOURNALISTIC ENGLISH-5

2.3 SUMMARY-6

CHAPTER THREE  A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF THE SYNTACTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF BUSINESS NEWS OF CHINA DAILY-8

3.1 RESEARCH QUESTIONS-8

3.2 RESEARCH METHODS-8

3.3 RESULT AND ANALYSIS . 8 

3.3.1 Sentence length-

3.3.2 Sentence structure-

3.3.3 Tense-

3.3.4 Voice-

3.4 ANALYSIS BETWEEN THE CHINA DAILY AND THE ECONOMICS-15

3.5 SUMMARY18

CHAPTER FOUR CONCLUSION-19

4.1 MAIN FINDINGS-19

4.2 SUGGESTIONS AND LIMITATIONS-19

BIBLIOGRAPHY-20